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Here you’ll find Chimera Lighting’s light-shaping tools: softboxes, lanterns, POPbanks, overhead lightbanks, panel frames, and V-Flats. All products are handmade and designed for use in broadcast, film, photography, museums, video, and studios, in combination with flash or continuous lighting. Chimera light-shaping tools can be used both indoors and outdoors on location.
Prices listed are ex-warehouse Amsterdam.
Prices are subject to change and errors excepted.
Chimera Lighting has been manufacturing professional light-shaping tools since 1980. The brand focuses on products built to last: handmade, durable, and designed for everyday use in professional photo and film studios and on video productions. When you choose Chimera, you’re choosing quality that pays for itself over the years. Chimera Lighting manufactures light-shaping tools for both flash and continuous light - ask us about the options!
Softboxes:
A Chimera softbox makes the light from your fixture source wider and softer. This allows you to create even lighting with soft shadows, ideal for portraits, product shots, and interviews. Chimera softboxes are available in various shapes and sizes.
Lantern softboxes:
It can be difficult to achieve soft, even lighting throughout an entire room. The Chimera lantern softbox is a good alternative to the traditional paper ball (China Ball) placed around the fixture. The special fabric forms a nearly perfect sphere, allowing the light to fall softly and evenly throughout the entire subject. The fixture output remains fully through 360°. You choose the size of the lantern based on the size of your space and the type of light fixture you want to use.
POPbanks:
A Chimera POPbank attaches directly to the fixture you wish to use, sometimes with a mounting frame but without a speed ring. With a POPbank on your lamp, you’ll emit soft, even light. POPbanks are available in various sizes and with a full or half front fabric; Chimera Lighting has a suitable model for virtually every lamp.
Overhead lightbanks
An overhead lightbank hangs above your subject and provides a large, soft light source from above. This makes them ideal for car photography and larger studio setups, among other things.
EZpop Grids and Egg Crates
By attaching a grid or egg crate to your softbox, you can direct the light more precisely and prevent it from scattering in all directions. This allows you to maintain the soft character of the softbox while having more control over where the light falls.
Panel Frames and Fabrics
Chimera panel frames are used with the corresponding diffusion and reflection fabrics and, depending on the size also with a separate Matthews Grip Floppy. This allows you to soften, reflect, or block light exactly where you need it.
V-Flat black/white
The Chimera V-Flat is a black-and-white V-Flat that is extremely durable and can be reused time and time again. So you don’t throw it away after a few productions, as you would with a Styrofoam board. All other panel frame fabrics also fit inside it, making the possibilities virtually endless. Because it’s foldable, it fits in any car, and you can even take it as carry-on luggage on a plane, for example. Chimera Panel Frames are the durable, lightweight solution for any (international) set.
Desired Light: Choose a softbox or POPbank for soft, directional light, and a lantern if you want to evenly illuminate an entire room.
Size: With a lantern, the size of the space determines the size of the light. With a softbox, the larger the light surface area relative to your subject, the softer the light.
Mounting: Check how the product fits onto your light stand. A POPbank can be used without a speed ring, while other softboxes require a compatible speed ring.
Control: If you want more directional light, choose a softbox with a suitable grid or egg crate.
Transport: If you work on location a lot, take a look at foldable products like the V-Flat.
• Portrait and product photographers:
softboxes and POPbanks for soft, even light, supplemented with grids for greater control.
• Videographers and film productions: lanterns for even lighting throughout an entire room, and panel frames with fabrics to soften or block light.
• Car photography and large studios: overhead lightbanks for a large area of light from above.
• On-location photographers: the foldable V-Flat or Panel Frames, which fit in any car and can even be carried as carry-on luggage.
BBP Light has been importing and selling professional continuous lighting and all related accessories since 1992. It’s no coincidence that Chimera is part of our product line. As lighting specialists, we’re happy to advise you on which Chimera product best suits your lamp and your workflow. If you already know what you’re looking for, you can easily order it in our online store.
The best way to see the difference between softboxes, lanterns, and POPbanks is in person. Visit our showroom at Abberdaan 194 in Amsterdam to view Chimera products and experience for yourself how they affect the light. We’re open Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Check out our selection below. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, please call us at 020 - 690 9898 or email us at info@bbplight.com, and we’ll be happy to help you find it.
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